2011 Italy Cruise Ship Accident

The cruise ship smashed into a dock located on the Giudecca canal in Venice this morning.

2011 italy cruise ship accident. The incident has prompted authorities to a. GIGLIO Italy Rescuers pulled five bodies clad in sodden life vests from the partly sunken cruise liner Costa Concordia on Tuesday bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 11 as. Sadly five passengers were injured as a result.

Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the Italian port of Civitavecchia. In an interview. Francesco Schettino captain of Italys doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship on Monday blamed the Indonesian helmsman for causing the accident that killed 32 people.

The ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was rammed by MS Stockholm now Astoria on July 25 1956. Photos of the Costa Concordia accident can be found on the stock photo sites Getty Images Shutterstock and Alamy. But the helmsman did not follow my orders correctly Schettino told a court in Grosseto where the trial against him for manslaughter and abandoning ship resumed after a summer recess.

Brown mud covered what had been the submerged side of the ship now gashed and crumpled under the vessel. On a larger scale a cruise ship crashed into a dock in Venice Italy around the same time. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Earlier Saturday Schettino told Italian television that the vessel had hit a rocky spur while cruising in waters which according to the charts should have been safe on Italys west coast. By James Mackenzie GIGLIO Italy Reuters - The Costa Concordia was pulled upright off the Italian island of Giglio on Tuesday in a tense salvage operation that revealed the damage to a once gleaming cruise liner that had lain on its side for 20 months after capsizing killing 32 people. When the 114137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130000 GT Dream-class cruise ships.

Technicians pass in a small boat near the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia lying aground in front of the Isola del Giglio on January 26 2012. The ship ran aground on 14 January 2012 near the Italian island of Isola del Giglio. Construction and maiden voyage.